Sickler Family Tree » Richard Benjamin (1740-1815)
Personal data Richard Benjamin
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4- He was born in the year 1740 in Goshen, Orange, New York, United States.
Attention: Was younger than 16 years (0) when child (Jonathan Benjamin) was born (??-??-1714). Attention: Was younger than 16 years old (8) when child (Jonathan Benjamin) died (??-??-1748). - Alternative: He was born in the year 1740.
- Resident:
- in the year 1810: Towandy, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States.Source 4
- in the year 1800: Wysox, Luzerne, Pennsylvania.Source 3
- He died on March 21, 1815 in Asylum, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, he was 75 years old.Source 2
- Alternative: He died on May 21, 1815 in Asylum, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, he was 75 years old.
- Alternative: He died in the year 1815, he was 75 years old.
- A child of Jonathan Benjamin and Mary Reeve
- A child of Jonathan Benjamin and Mary Reeve
Household of Richard Benjamin
He is married to Martha Bennett.
They got married in the year 1776 at Asylum, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, he was 36 years old.
Child(ren):
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Sources
- Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Trees
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=28064322&pid=4094
/ Ancestry.com - Pennsylvania Veterans Burial Cards, 1777-1999, Ancestry.com
Death date: 1815 Death place:
/ Ancestry.com - 1800 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1800; Census Place: Wysox, Luzerne, Pennsylvania; Roll: ; Page: ; Image: .
Residence date: 1800 Residence place: Wysox, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
/ Ancestry.com - 1810 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1810; Census Place: Towandy, Luzerne, Pennsylvania; Roll: 49; Page: 718; Family History Number: 0193675; Image: 00176.
Residence date: 1810 Residence place: Towandy, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States
/ Ancestry.com
Historical events
Day of death May 21, 1815
- The temperature on May 21, 1815 was about 10.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: half bewolkt regen. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
- In the year 1815: Source: Wikipedia
- January 15 » War of 1812: American frigate USSPresident, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
- March 30 » Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
- June 16 » Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
- July 15 » Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMSBellerophon.
- December 23 » The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published.
- December 25 » The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.
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- 1810 » Chevalier d'Eon, French diplomat and spy (b. 1728)
- 1844 » Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest and composer (b. 1775)
- 1858 » José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (b. 1783)
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